Re: What is the "Gnome Settings Daemon"?

[Jim Hartley <xjimh cfl rr com>]

Well, that was NOT helpful!!! "which" didn't find it. I tried the alt-F2 
thing, it started something, but it killed SeaMonkey, and left the 
system very unresponsive - had to play around to get things back to 
normal (ctl-alt-F2, login, back to ctl-alt-F7, then exit from the 
ctl-alt-F2 session) and manually restart SeaMonkey.

I seem to recall there is a script or something, somewhere in /etc, that 
refers to the gnome-settings-daemon, I tried to comment that out just to 
get rid of the error message but no luck.

What are "gtk themes"? I have no idea whether they are running, a lot of 
this stuff is new. I just recently bought a new computer and upgraded 
from my old RedHat 7.0/Gnome 1.x box, so I am kind of clueless on a lot 
of the new stuff. But now that I think about it, I DID have to go into 
the manual startup list and add a few things, like the screensaver 
wouldn't work until I did that.

And WHY would something like FC6 have an unstable Gnome anyway????

Jim Hartley

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 09:39 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
>
>   
> > I am running a Fedora Core 6 system with the Gnome desktop. Every time I 
> > boot the machine, I get an error message that the Gnome Settings Daemon 
> > could not be run, and it tells me I may have trouble with some of my 
> > desktop settings. Other than having to deal with the window for this 
> > message, everything seems to work OK.
> >     
>
> It means you're running an unstable version of gnome :( I started
> getting this error on ALL our systems when upgrading to 2.16.something
> from 2.14.something.
>
>   
> > How can I either:
> >     1. Get the Gnome Settings Daemon to run
> >     
>
> Hold down ALT and hit F2, and type:
> /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
>
> That's the path on my system. It may be different on yours. You can try
> ( in a terminal ):
> which gnome-settings-daemon
>
> to try to find it.
>
>   
> > or:
> >     2. Get it to stop trying so I don't get the stupid error message
> >     
>
> That's a damned good question. I'm all ears.
>
>   
> > Since I am not apparently having any problems, either solution is 
> > acceptable. Thanks in advance for any help.
> >     
>
> Your gtk themes and possibly other things won't work properly without
> it.
>
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